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Month: June 2006
ROSSINI: La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola, ossia La bont‡ in trionfo. Dramma giocoso in two acts.
Music composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868). Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Perrault.
Don Giovanni ó Millennium Centre, Cardiff
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1791112,00.html
ThaÔs, Grange Park Opera, Hampshire
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There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Pavarotti
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/07/nsing07.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/07/ixuknews.html
MAHLER: Lieder
Among the interpreters of Mahler’s music in the late twentieth century, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Daniel Barenboim stand out for their various contributions.
BERNHARD: Geistliche Harmonien
The composer Christoph Bernhard (born Kolberg, Pomerania, 1628, died, Dresden 1692) embodies the problematic nature of German musical culture in the seventeenth century.
MONTEVERDI: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
This Opus Arte set not only captures a mostly satisfying performance of Monteverdi’s opera based on the last books of Homer’s Odyssey, but features something even rarer: a booklet essay by the musical director (Glen Wilson) of remarkable lucidity.
LE JEUNE: Autant en emporte le vent ó French Chansons
In spite of the religious warfare that consumed France during the second half of the sixteenth century (which claimed the life of one eminent Catholic composer, Antoine de Bertrand, who was murdered by Protestants)*, musical life continued unabated.